The recent marital transition in Bulgaria between historical diversity and Pan-European integration

This paper deals with the development of family dynamics in Bulgaria with particular emphasis on the transformation in individual marital behaviour observed since the early 1990s. First, a brief overview of the development of nuptiality over the last century is provided, which establishes the stability of important features associated with the eastern European marriage pattern. The recent marital changes in the country are then discussed in the context of an evolving Second Demographic Transition, which challenges the last remnants of the eastern European marriage pattern and proceeds as an integrative trend toward the plurality of family forms observed within and between European countries. Special attention is directed towards the urban–rural differences in the development of the recent marital transition in Bulgaria. These differences are analysed from the perspective of the subjective preconditions associated with the change or stability of particular values and world-views related to marital life. The analysis shows that in Bulgaria during the 1990s it was the big cities that tended to be innovative centres, disseminating the new familistic values and behavioural patterns that facilitated the development of new marital trends. Conversely, the towns and villages tended to be places in which traditional values were stronger and prevailed for longer. These values, along with some structural factors, maintained the more traditional marital profile of the rural areas for longer.     

民营职业中介机构的立法变迁与功能探析

民营职业中介机构（以下简称＂民营中介＂）和公共职业介绍机构是劳动力市场的重要服务主体。从历史上看,对于职业介绍服务的提供,大致经历了从国家垄断,到放松管制,再到彻底解除管制三个阶段。民营中介是劳动力市场不可或缺的参与主体,对于实现充分就业、补充公共职业介绍机构的不足和提高劳动者的综合素质都有重要意义。     

社会转型期思想政治工作浅析——学习胡锦涛同志在中国共产党建党85周年大会上的讲话有感

本文从多视角探讨社会转型期思想政治工作的必要性,并从理论上分析其深层问题,提出只有以人为本,与时俱进,放眼全球,才能开拓思想政治工作的新思路,找到实现中华民族根本利益的科学方法。     

近十年江苏人口的变化特征

近十年江苏人口发展出现了如下六大特征：人口增长速度减缓，不少地区出现人口零增长；平均受教育年限延长，盲半盲率大幅度下降，而高化程度的人数增长迅速；人口老龄化问题严重，2000年江苏65岁以上人口占总人口的8．84％，仅低于上海和浙江；早婚率大幅度下降，离婚人数以较快速度增长，在江苏未婚、可婚人口中，大龄男女性比例严重失调；劳动力老化严重；每年净增长劳动力多，随着高校扩招，江苏将出现人才的结构性过剩；市镇人口以每年8％的速度增长，2000年市镇人口比重为42％。     

社会转型中的行政调处制度

行政调处是一项十分中国化的制度,从理论上深入探讨和研究行政调处制度是社会转型的客观要求。作为各种纠纷行政解决机制的统称,行政调处存在着设定缺乏整体性等诸多不足。在依法治国的背景下,我们必须从基本原则到具体机制对行政调处进行全方面的制度变革,以适应社会转型的客观需要。     

"入世"与政府职能的转变

加入WTO,对我国来说,既是挑战,也是机遇.作为政府首先要按照WTO的规则实行转变,按照市场经济规律管理经济,使政府行为法治化、透明化,提高管理效率.     

Shyness, Sociability, and Parental Support for the College Transition: Relation to Adolescents’ Adjustment

A path model was tested in an ethnically diverse sample of 350 college students in which shyness, sociability, and parental support for the college transition were related to loneliness and friendship quality. Furthermore, friendship quality and loneliness were related to depression and anxiety. High levels of shyness, low levels of sociability, and low levels of parental support were related to high levels of loneliness. High levels of parental support for the college transition were related to more positive friendship quality. Multiple regression analyses suggested that loneliness, but not friendship quality, were related to adolescents’ anxiety and depression. In addition, the interaction between shyness and sociability was significantly related to anxiety for African-American adolescents such that adolescents who reported low levels of sociability in combination with high levels of shyness reported the highest levels of anxiety. There was also a significant interaction between sociability and parental support for African-American adolescents such that high levels of sociability in combination with low levels of parental support for the college transition were related to high levels of anxiety. For White adolescents, only loneliness was related to anxiety. Nina S. Mounts is an associate professor at Northern Illinois University. She received her PhD in child and family studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her major research interests are on linkages between parent and peer contexts, parental management of adolescents’ peer relationships, and peer influence on adolescents. David P. Valentiner is an associate professor at Northern Illinois University. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from University of Texas-Austin. His major research interests are cognitive and emotional factors in anxiety disorders, including the development and maintenance of social anxiety. Katherine Anderson is a graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her MS in developmental psychology from Northern Illinois University. Her major research interests are on career identity development in college students. Michelle Boswell is a graduate student at Northern Illinois University. She received her MS in clinical psychology from Northern Illinois University. Her major research interests are on parenting effects on bullying and victimization.     

Memory,Melancholia and Political Transition in Amuleto and Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño

This article explores the significance of melancholy in two novels by Roberto Bolaño: Amuleto (1999) and Nocturno de Chile (2000). These aim to give narrative form to memories surrounding the violent dismantling of the political left that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America. Yet in their melancholic articulation, they do so in a way that both haunts narratives of political transition and questions the consensus regarding literature's obsolescence. In so doing they advocate a mode of reading that confers futurity on past remnants and ruins, and that thwarts the transformation of political defeat into a trophy of the victor's triumph.     

“Your Money or Your Life”: Money and Socialist Transformation

This article argues against a common-sense logic that money can assist in socialist transformation, espouses a non-market ecosocialist position and urges greater clarity in associated discourse. Analyses of capitalist operations show that growth is not simply a characteristic tendency of capitalism but rather an essential outgrowth of its deficiencies. Marx identified these deficiencies, indicating that the end of capitalism was an end to money, that is, exchange value. Money is not a tool but evolves as a code of conduct to structure social relationships that reproduce inequity, competition, distrust and alienation. Indeed, the existence of capitalists and capitalism without money is inconceivable and impossible in practice. Money refusal and the development and defence of fair non-monetary forms of livelihood continuously critique capital and demonstrate alternative (or at least “hybrid”) socialist forms. Contemporary anti-capitalists have developed constructive skills to move beyond money and capitalism in their practical development of “green materialism.” However, a wide-ranging discourse remains to be had on moving beyond money sooner rather than later. The final section of this paper sketches a non-market ecosocialist vision.